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Hollywood\u2019s awards season can start to feel a little gratuitously self-congratulatory, but Tuesday night some of the biggest movie stars in the industry are gathering to celebrate someone other than themselves. Mel Brooks, Angela Bassett and film editor Carol Littleton will\u00a0collect honorary Oscar statuettes\u00a0at a private, untelevised dinner Tuesday night in Los Angeles that has often been even starrier than the Oscars themselves.<\/p>\n
Michelle Satter, a founder and director of the Sundance Institute\u2019s artist programs, will also receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. The annual event is put on by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize contributions to the industry and a life\u2019s achievement. It used to be part of the Oscars telecast but shifted to a separate occasion in 2009, with heartfelt tributes from some of the honorees\u2019 dearest collaborators and no time constraints on the speeches.<\/p>\n
Most recipients of the academy\u2019s honorary awards have not won competitive Oscars, but Brooks is an exception. He won an original screenplay Oscar for \u201cThe Producers.\u201d\u00a0At the ceremony, in 1969, he said he wanted to \u201cthank the academy of arts sciences and money for this wonderful award.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 97-year-old, who began his career writing for Sid Caesar\u2019s \u201cYour Show of Shows,\u201d and over the next 70 years would write, direct, act, produce for film, television and Broadway and write books,\u00a0including a recent memoir, is among the rare breed of EGOT-winners. (Those are entertainers who have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards.) He also received two other Oscar nominations, for writing the lyrics to John Morris\u2019 \u201cBlazing Saddles\u201d song and another screenwriting nod for \u201cYoung Frankenstein,\u201d which he shared with Gene Wilder.<\/p>\n
Bassett, 65, whose credits include \u201cBoyz N the Hood,\u201d \u201cMalcolm X,\u201d \u201cWaiting to Exhale\u201d and \u201cHow Stella Got Her Groove Back,\u201d received her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Tina Turner in \u201cWhat\u2019s Love Got to Do With It\u201d and\u00a0her second last year\u00a0for playing the grieving queen in \u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever.\u201d<\/p>\n
Littleton worked frequently with both Lawrence Kasdan and\u00a0Jonathan Demme, editing films like \u201cBody Heat,\u201d \u201cThe Big Chill,\u201d \u201cSwimming to Cambodia\u201d and \u201cThe Manchurian Candidate.\u201d She received her first and only Oscar nomination for \u201cE.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,\u201d the only film she\u2019s edited for Steven Spielberg. She was also married to cinematographer and former Academy president John Bailey, who died in November at age 81.<\/p>\n
Satter, meanwhile, has\u00a0led the Sundance Institute\u2019s artist programs\u00a0for more than 40 years, helping filmmakers at the earliest stages of their careers, from Paul Thomas Anderson to Ryan Coogler. She also suffered a tragic death in the family recently: Her son,\u00a0Michael Latt, was killed in December\u00a0in Los Angeles. Latt, 33, was making a name for himself in the industry on projects with filmmakers including Coogler and Ava DuVernay.<\/p>\n
The event, which was delayed from its original November date because of the actors strike, is also a de facto campaign stop for the current season\u2019s awards hopefuls. Voting for the 96th Oscars begins on Thursday and nominations will be announced on Jan. 23 for the March 10 ceremony. There will undoubtedly be strong attendance from the filmmakers and casts of \u201cOppenheimer,\u201d \u201cBarbie,\u201d \u201cKillers of the Flower Moon,\u201d \u201cPoor Things,\u201d \u201cMaestro\u201d and other top contenders.<\/p>\n
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